Feb 14
For all you Googlers out there:
If you see the following in /var/cron/log on Solaris:
! bad user (root) or setgid failed (root)
The solution is restarting cron.
For all you Googlers out there:
If you see the following in /var/cron/log on Solaris:
! bad user (root) or setgid failed (root)
The solution is restarting cron.
January 9th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Restarting cron does not fix the issue. I did this a few times on Solaris 10 and it would not correct the problem. This issue occurs for every ID, not just root.
February 28th, 2008 at 7:05 am
Root password has been expire just rest the root password it will work.
May 1st, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I my case the one user (service account, not meant for real users) it had been LK in the shadow file… Probably our OPS dept banging on the login with the wrong passwd. — That is silly… cause any body could D.O.S. the box by just knocking and locking out the account — YIKs!
June 6th, 2008 at 6:27 am
Hi,
I got the same error on a Sol 9 machine. Tried restarting the cron and checked if the account is locked.The a/c was not locket but the error still occurs in /var/cron/log.
please suggest wat cud be the root cause and also provide a solution.
! bad user (epdadm) or setgid failed (epdadm) Fri Jun 6 12:26:00 2008
! bad user (epdadm) or setgid failed (epdadm) Fri Jun 6 12:26:00 2008
! bad user (epdadm) or setgid failed (epdadm) Fri Jun 6 12:26:00 2008
! bad user (epdadm) or setgid failed (epdadm) Fri Jun 6 12:26:00 2008
! bad user (epdadm) or setgid failed (epdadm) Fri Jun 6 12:26:00 2008
June 6th, 2008 at 6:37 am
plz find the shadow entry of the user epdadm
grep epdadm /etc/shadow
epdadm:we2Fe53quaaXm:13578::::::
July 24th, 2008 at 6:50 am
Resetting the password did it for me. I run Solaris 10. The cron on the zones ran just fine but my backup failed (uses root to log in) and my crons all failed to run. The shadow looked fine and the passwd file was fine. I did a simple # passwd root and then tested cron and it worked fine. A bug perhaps??
November 3rd, 2008 at 4:21 pm
sounds like you have been digging for a long time